The simple answer is that web hosting can be anywhere from free to $30 a month. There are lots of web hosting companies that charge about $5 a month for a web hosting account.

Unseen costs?

Since we’re talking about a difference of only a few dollars a month from one web hosting company to the next, the biggest cost you may experience may not be the monthly fee. Consider the following…

Disabled accounts: If your web hosting company promises “unlimited” bandwidth and disk space, but then right when you are experiencing a big surge in traffic they shut your account down for “excessive use,” how much will that cost you in terms of lost visitors, customers or ministry opportunities?

Poor support: If you have a problem with your website but can’t get any help for 2 days because the web hosting company has outsourced and scaled back its support, how much will that cost you?

Un-Christian values: If you pay GoDaddy for your web hosting or domains, during last night’s Super Bowl, you got another reminder of what your money is funding.

The bottom line is that when there’s only a few dollars a month difference in price between various services, price is probably not the most important factor in the buying decision.

What do you think?

How important is price vs reliability, support, values or other factors in your web hosting decisions?